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Re: IDL Color Blues [message #9743 is a reply to message #9683]

Thu, 14 August 1997 00:00

Alex Schuster
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Registered: February 1997

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David Foster wrote:

> You might try putting the following in your
> /usr/openwin/lib/Xdefaults (or .Xdefaults) file:
>
> Idl*colors: -10
>
> This tells IDL to reserve 10 colors before grabbing color indices,
> thereby sparing colors used by the system.

I tried this on some of our 8-bit Suns, but didn't notice any change.
I started an IDL session, opened a window, and IDL grabbed all available
colors. Okay so far.
Then I starten another session, and opened a window with COLORS=50. When
I moved the mouse into the window, the color table was changed, and the
50 colors allocated the first 50 cells.
Maybe this problem related to OpenWindows 3.4? (No, I did not forget to
xrdb the .Xdefaults file.)

BTW, where does one find information about the entries in the .Xdefaults
file? The only iformation I found was in
$IDL_DIR/resource/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults/Idl, it wasn't of much help.
Lines like

! Size, resize behavior of the File Selection box, dialog_pickfile()
Idl*XmFileSelectionBox.resizePolicy: XmRESIZE_GROW
Idl*XmFileSelectionBox.width: 400

look promising.

Alex
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		IDL Color Blues By: wonko on Mon, 11 August 1997 00:00
		Re: IDL Color Blues By: Alex Schuster on Thu, 14 August 1997 00:00
		Re: IDL Color Blues By: David Foster on Tue, 12 August 1997 00:00
		Re: IDL Color Blues By: Alex Schuster on Tue, 12 August 1997 00:00
		Re: IDL Color Blues By: Aviv Gladman on Tue, 12 August 1997 00:00
		Re:IDL Color Blues By: Paul Crain on Fri, 15 August 1997 00:00

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